Remote Compliance Engineer: Cloud Security & Automation

Figma; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); Remote; USD 169,000 - 296,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

Retirement benefits

Parental leave

Mental health and wellness benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Figma is seeking a Compliance Engineer to design, implement, and test security controls across FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST. You’ll translate regulatory requirements into technical controls and leverage automation, JSON, APIs, and AI-assisted tools to streamline testing, evidence collection, and monitoring.

The role can be performed from US hubs or remotely within the United States. You will collaborate with security, infrastructure, and product teams to scale compliance across cloud

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in security compliance, security assurance, IT audit, or compliance engineering.
• Experience with security compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST 800-53, designing, implementing, and testing technical security controls in SaaS or cloud environments.
• Experience testing security controls for design and operating performance, including surfacing gaps and confirming fixes.
• Understanding of cloud security concepts, including identity and access management, vulnerability management, logging, and security configurations.
• Experience working with engineering teams to implement compliance requirements as technical solutions.
• Experience with JSON, REST APIs, and automation, applied to compliance engineering challenges.

Responsibilities

• Develop and verify technical security controls that satisfy multiple compliance frameworks.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to translate compliance requirements into effective technical controls.
• Design and execute control testing procedures to assess control performance, surface gaps, and verify that remediation is complete.
• Establish repeatable control assessments and continuous monitoring processes to evaluate compliance effectiveness.
• Translate security requirements into structured, machine-readable JSON definitions to support control management, testing, and automation.
• Build and maintain API integrations and automated workflows to streamline evidence collection, control validation, and compliance processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve control effectiveness, reduce manual effort, and scale compliance operations across multiple frameworks.

Skills

Security compliance

Security assurance

IT audit

Compliance engineering

JSON

REST APIs

Automation

Cloud security

Tools

Python

Job description

Figma is seeking a Compliance Engineer to design, implement, and test security controls across FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST. You’ll translate regulatory requirements into technical controls and leverage automation, JSON, APIs, and AI-assisted tools to streamline testing, evidence collection, and monitoring.

The role can be performed from US hubs or remotely within the United States. You will collaborate with security, infrastructure, and product teams to scale compliance across cloud